TRUE DIMENSIONS

A/N: Please don't give up on me yet…Jake and Bella aren't through yet…huggs.

A/N: Also the words I use in some of these chapters are made up they are no way or form Quileute or any other language; I made them all up myself.

A/N: Remember this is a Bella and Jacob story, bare with me; we have to get through a few things before we get to the main part of the story.

A/N: There is bad language in this story and some light fluff…huggs

All characters belong to S.M. and twilight, but the plot is all me…

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

THE TRUTH COMES INTO LIGHT

It surprised me that Tatika had come to visit me, I led him in and we sat on the sofa facing one another.
"So…what brings you here this morning?" I asked him.

"Am I not welcome to visit the mighty Ancient?" he said with a chuckle.

"Of course your welcome Tatika, it's just you've never come to my house before, you usually send for me or I come to see you," I told him, with my own chuckle.

"Yes my child, I was only teasing you…but there is a matter I wish to talk to you about," he said, in a serious tone.

"Don't tell me there's something coming again?" I asked a little nervous. He laughed out loud.

"No child nothing is coming, but there is a matter that will need your assistance and soon," he said.

"I don't understand Tatika, what exactly are you talking about?" I asked him.

"Before I tell you, you must understand that when things were, how I can explain this," he said, and then continued, "Bella, I know you think that everyone was changed when you and the Great Spirit merged the two worlds together as one, but I was the exception, the Great Spirit left me with my memories, she left them to me so as to watch over things to make sure it stayed true, she did this not to disrespect your abilities, but as they say two set of eyes are better than one," he said.

I looked at him shocked, here I thought I was the only one living this nightmare, when Tatika was there watching over things with me, I let out a breathe that I had been holding, which seemed like forever or at least since the two worlds were merged. I was not alone any longer, and I almost cried when a sense of relief washed over me. I smiled at Tatika.

"Why didn't you come to me before today? It would have been so much easier to handle if I knew someone was there that knew the truth besides me?" I asked him.

"The Great Spirit wanted it this way, I wasn't to come to you unless something was going to happen that you haven't seen, and there is something about to happen, and because you are so close to the situation, you cannot see what is in front of your eyes," he said.

I looked at him concerned, "What exactly are you talking about?" I asked him.

"Did you know that Lizzy is having her baby as we speak?" he asked.

I looked at him with a furrowed brow.

"No…! Why didn't someone let me know…? I must go to her," I yelled jumping from the sofa and running to the phone to call someone to sit with E.J. but before I could reach the phone Tatika stopped me.

"Bella…Wait…! He yelled," I turned to look at him, "Come child, we must talk before you leave," he said.

"Tatika…I understand we need to talk but I must get to my sister," I told him.

"No child…it is already too late," he said, I looked at him, his words scared me, it sent a shiver through my body.

"W…What are you saying Tatika?" I asked reluctantly, I began to shake; I wrapped my arms around myself to help with the coldness I felt, more in fear than in coldness, I was afraid of what he was about to tell me.

"I am sorry child, I know you didn't see this coming, but Lizzy didn't survive the birth of Jacob's and her child," he said. I looked at him in shock, the tears weld up in the corner of my eyes and over flowed down my cheeks, my mind went blank for a few seconds trying to come to term with the realism of what he just told me, my sister is dead, why didn't I feel it, she is part of me an identical twin, was I so wrapped up in my own world that I didn't see or feel it coming on, yes I healed her, then it hit me.

"Oh God…I could have saved her…why didn't Jake call me, I could have saved her," I kept repeating over and over again.

"No child…not even you could have saved her," Tatika told me, I looked at him.

"What are talking about? Of course I could have, I could have healed her like I have a hundred times since she's had problems with her pregnancy," I told him.

"That's the point my child…you have healed her so many times but it didn't take, you should have only had to heal her once, but you had to do it a number of times, it was her time Bella, but it is not her I have come here to talk to you about," he said. I looked into his eyes once again, fear over took me again, now what, I didn't think I could handle any more, the great Ancient couldn't handle any more, what kind of superior being am I? that I can't handle this sort of things, I could move mountains, merge worlds, but when it came to my family, I couldn't handle the emotional things, I was disgusted with myself, I dried my tears and straightened my back and stood strong. Tatika seen this and smiled, without saying a word he crossed his arms and waited, as thoughts raced through my mind.

"Jake…Jake would need me, not as his imprint but as an Ancient…he would need healed, taken care of, in Jake's eyes Lizzy was his imprint, she was dead, Jake would be crushed," I said as Tatika listened and a smile formed on his face, you could see the proud vibes coming from him, me as his student, he uncrossed his arms.

"You know what you must do," he said as he rose from the sofa and walked to the door, he turned to me and smiled once again, "If you need me you know where I will be," he said as he left my house. I walked to the phone and called Sue, she agreed to come to the house and keep watch over E.J. I readied myself to go to the hospital.

I arrived at the hospital and asked the desk nurse about Lizzy, she asked if I was family, I looked at her clearly seeing that she hadn't laid eyes on Lizzy, if she had she would have seen the resemblance between the two of us. I told her who I was and she told me that she hadn't made it, which I knew already, I asked where her husband was she gave me directions to the waiting room and the floor they would be on.

I ran to where she directed me, Jake wasn't in the waiting room; I searched the floor looking for where my sister would have been. I found Billy sitting in the hallway, his head in his hands as he wept.

I placed my hand on his shoulder, as he looked up at me with red swollen eyes; he gave me a look of sorrow not for him but for me with it being my sister. I stooped down beside his chair, he grabbed my hand as I blocked out what I didn't want to see from Billy.

"Bella I am so sorry…" he said, the words of his sincerity touched my heart as a single tear ran down my cheek, as I fought for control, yes Lizzy was gone, but my one concern wasn't for her right now it was for Jake, he needed me and I needed to find him.

"Thank you Billy…Where is Jake?" I asked him, he looked at me; he looked around before he spoke, and I could see he wasn't thinking clearly, I gave him a few seconds to think about the question I asked.

"Umm…he was…no," he said shaking his head then looked up to me with worry, "he ran off, I don't know where he went, he was sooo…hurt…lost…" he said hunting for the words to fit what Jake was feeling, clearly not finding the right words. I let loose of his hand and walked over where my back was against the wall and closed my eye, I let my mind do the work of hunting Jacob.

"Jacob…can you hear me?"

"Bella leave me alone."

"Jacob, I can help you, let me heal you." I begged.

"Get out of my head Bella; I just want to be left alone."

"I hurt too Jacob, but my main concern right now is you, come home, let me heal you…please." I begged once again, but he didn't answer.

"Jake what about the baby, are you just going to leave him to fend for himself?" I asked trying to make him see he had a son that needed him.

"Dad and you can handle him for awhile, I just need time Bella, please, just leave me alone for awhile."

I tried to talk to him to beg him to come home and let me heal him, but he wasn't thinking clearly, he closed off his mind to me. I opened my eyes to see Billy staring at me. I sighed.

"Jake won't be home for awhile," I told him. He looked at me clearly upset.

"What about the baby? I can't take care of a baby, and Paul and Rebecca are away, I'm sure they'll be here as soon as they find out about Lizzy but its hard telling how soon they will get back," he told me.

"Billy I will help in any way I can," I told him.

"There releasing the child tomorrow," Billy told me.

"I'll take him, until Jake comes home, I tried to get him to come home so I could heal him but he isn't in the right frame of mind right now and he isn't listening to me, so I can't heal him until he comes home," I told him. Billy sighed.

"Thank you Bella," he said. "Let go talk to the doctor," he said, as we found the doctor and talked to him. He knew who I was and agreed to let me take the child home with me and he would release him tomorrow, I told him I would be there at 9 the next morning. Billy waited for me in the waiting room as I went to say my good-bye to my sister.

I walked into the room where my sister laid, she looked so peaceful, she would never know her child, or know how special she truly was, she would never know what I gave up just so her and Jake could have a life together, I felt as if everything I had done for Jake and Lizzy was in vane, why did she have to die, was it because she wasn't supposed to be with Jake, was it my fault? Yes the imprint was a mistake, was it because I carried the same D.N.A. as Lizzy that Jake fell in love with her? Was it because he met her first? Was it because of my own selfish want of my sister to be in my life that I let her live? Should I have taken the advice of Tatika back when we were searching for answers to save the two worlds to let her die back then? No…I couldn't take the life of anyone much less my own sister, it was written by Jake's own great-grandfather that there would be another wrong imprint, and that it would cause misery, told to him by the Great Spirit Taha Aki. It was supposed to happen this way, it was no one's fault, it was written, as a tear flowed from my cheek.

"Look at us Lizzy…identical twins in love with the same man, only to have one of us die, how will I handle the fact that I lost a sister just to satisfy a prophecy, told to the chief of the tribe so many years ago. It's so not fair, but then again who said life was fair, I will care for your child Lizzy as if he were my own, this I promise you dear sister, I love you and will never forget what you gave to end this terrible prophecy, I wish it was the other way around dear sister, I would gladly give my life so you could live," I told her as I reached down and kissed her on her forehead, I swallowed hard and wiped the tears from my cheek and left the room.

I walked to the waiting room where I left Billy and we headed home, I dropped him at his house telling him if he needed me he had my phone number, he thanked me and I went home to my own child.

Dad came in his eyes were red and swollen, he walked up to me and held me in his arms, he wept on my shoulder, although he never knew his daughter he grew to love her more in this past year than a life time would have allowed, I helped him to his room as he laid on his bed, letting me know he would be fine, I laid my hand on his chest and said the healing word and it did heal him, but something like this would take time even with the magic of healing.

The house was dark, darker than it had ever been and it was due to the mourning of our loved one.

The next day I picked up Lizzy's child and brought him home, looking at him I could see once again, Jacob's eyes, he too looked just like Jake, two sons, brother's by two separate women, but still the same blood line, which made them brothers as much as Lizzy and myself were, though Jake didn't know that he has another son, one look at the two of them together, you would swear they were the twins, identical in looks as Lizzy and I were…mirror images, I sighed as I laid Lizzy's son next to my own.

"My God, there is no way Jake won't see this," I feared now what was going to happen, how was I to explain this without telling him the whole story, how could I explain, I had no words to explain, my mind was completely blank, I shook my head and vowed to worry about it when it happened, I was so tired, tired of hiding what had happened, tired of hurting for the lost of Jacob and now Lizzy… and the pain of what Charlie was feeling, my heart broke with the feeling that Jake was so upset that he was running from the pain he felt, I hoped he would come home soon and let me heal him.

Two weeks had passed and there was no sign or word from Jacob, I tried to reach him with my mind…but he still had me blocked so as not hear me, we had the funeral for Lizzy afraid to wait any longer for Jake to come home.

I cared for Lizzy's child, he had never been named and the hospital was pressing me for a name telling me they needed one before they could register his birth. I felt it wasn't my place to name him. I asked Billy about it and he gave me permission to name his grandson. I wanted him to carry Jake's name and I'm sure that would have been Lizzy's wish as well, so I named him Jacob William Black, giving him Jake's name and William after Billy for his middle name. Yes my son had Jacob's name as well but it was his middle name so there wouldn't be any confusion. Billy agreed to the name I had given his grandson and was happy that I gave him Jake's and his name.

"I had the boys lying on the bed feeding them, one bottle in each hand when the phone rang; Charlie carried the house phone to me.

"You have a phone call Bella," he said. I looked at him and at the boys, he smiled and picked up his grandson and took the bottle and walked out of the bedroom with him while I finished feeding Jake's son, I picked up the phone that laid on the bed next to me and brought it to my ear.

"Hello."

"Bella." The voice on the other end said, as I recognized the voice.

"Jake…where are you?"

"I'm at home."

"Are you alright?" I asked.

"Yes…I'm fine," He said in a weary voice.

"You don't sound alright," I told him. "Jake please let me come over so I can heal you." I begged.

"No Bella, I'll come to you, I want to see my son," he told me, my heart began to beat faster I feared what would happen if he seen the two boys together. With that he hung up the phone, I finished feeding little Jacob and put him into the crib, when I turned around Jake walked into the bedroom carrying E.J. my heart almost stopped. Jake looked at me.

"Bella," is all he said as he walked past me and laid, E.J. into the crib at the foot of little Jake, he looked at his son who laid at the other end and smiled, then his smile faded as he looked at my son then back to his own, with a confused look on his face he looked at me.

"Bella?"